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Bernie Sanders has a TV show these days, as profiled by NBC News' Alex Seitz-Wald. It focuses his newfound social media fame into Facebook Live interviews, featuring Sanders and guests. A fun anecdote from his interview with New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer:

It's Thursday afternoon and Bernie Sanders is on a TV set about to go live when he realizes there's a problem. ... "Does this make me look fat?" he asks, looking down at how his stomach folds into a red upholstered arm chair... He decides the chair has to go and two straight-backed leather replacements are quickly brought out.